From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15794: Core dump after SIGTERM during GC marking Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:52:25 +0200 Message-ID: <83a9hl9sau.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k3gq2dpr.fsf@igel.home> <83d2mh9ydm.fsf@gnu.org> <877gcp2wiz.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383508394 22088 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2013 19:53:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 19:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15794@debbugs.gnu.org, gundaetiapo@gmail.com To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 03 20:53:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd3jZ-0002Ln-S8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:53:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46517 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd3jZ-0000ur-B8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:53:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43093) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd3jQ-0000mv-9E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:53:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd3jK-0002IB-V7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47287) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd3jK-0002I5-OO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd3jK-0007j8-83 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:53:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:53:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15794 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15794-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15794.138350836829680 (code B ref 15794); Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:53:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15794) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Nov 2013 19:52:48 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33073 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd3j5-0007id-7a for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:34886) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd3j2-0007iO-5E for 15794@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:52:45 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVP00900DTMBS00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 15794@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:52:33 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVP00983DVJ7440@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:52:32 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <877gcp2wiz.fsf@igel.home> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:79929 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: 15794@debbugs.gnu.org, gundaetiapo@gmail.com > Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:03:00 +0100 > > >> The signal was received during GC. Shouldn't its handling be postponed > >> then? > > > > Maybe. But then it would be impossible to kill Emacs during a runaway > > GC in a way that would cause Emacs to auto-save, wouldn't it? > > Even auto-save is a no-no in a signal handler. I don't see why. Auto-save takes care to do only predictable things. Not to mention that Emacs has been doing this for many years, and that it's a valuable feature that it does.